Kyle Chouinard
9/13/24
(Las Vegas Sun) End Citizens United, a left-leaning advocacy group focusing on money in politics, filed the complaint this week.
Tiffany Muller, the group’s president, called the act “an egregious violation of federal law that opens the door for corruption in our elections.”
The complaint is the third that End Citizens United — which has endorsed Rosen — has filed against Brown in the past 12 months.
Submitted in October 2023, the first complaint relates to a separate PAC that, CNN reported, paid down Brown’s campaign debt instead of helping elect Republicans as advertised.
The organization’s second complaint alleges Brown financed his unsuccessful 2022 Senate primary campaign by directing donors to a super PAC supporting him once they had maxed out their spending on the campaign. Both are still under review by the elections commission.
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Pointing to the username of the account that published the video online — “Chariot LLC” — End Citizens United asserted that Pathfinder was connected to the alleged illegal contribution.
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“It is readily apparent that this video comes from the same interview,” End Citizens United wrote in its complaint. “The timing thus clearly suggests that it was posted solely to transmit the footage to the Brown campaign.”
Political campaigns can, and regularly do, publish content to their campaign websites that then gets used in PAC advertising. End Citizens United’s complaint is flipped, with the PAC making video used by the campaign.
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Ending the complaint, End Citizens United wrote that if the FEC didn’t investigate Brown, it would enable super PACs to directly contribute to candidates.
“This kind of secretive, backroom coordination … undermines the fundamental principle of fair play in our elections,” Muller said.